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Consistency, finality of judicial decisions hallmarks of sound justice delivery system: SC

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Published on Apr 22, 2025 07:55 PM IST

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Proclaimed offender’s property attached by Police in Poonch, JK

Bashir was involved in FIR No. 70/2000 registered at Police Station Poonch under Sections 2/3 of the Egress and Internal Movement (Control) Ordinance (E&IMCO); accused absconded to Pakistan/PoJK and was subsequently declared a proclaimed offender by the court, say police

Despite repeated efforts to apprehend him, Bashir continued to evade arrest, leading the court to issue orders for attachment of his property. (ANI File Photo)

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Published on Apr 11, 2025 09:18 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Jammu

HC refers key arrest procedure issues to larger bench

The Bombay High Court will decide if arrest grounds must be in writing and if prior notice is needed, addressing procedural ambiguities affecting serious crime bail.

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Published on Feb 01, 2025 06:48 AM IST

ByPrateem Rohanekar

Alimony can’t be a condition for bail in marital disputes: SC

Emphasising that such a stipulation lies outside the scope of bail conditions, SC asserted that the conditions of bail must be relevant.

Emphasising that such a stipulation lies outside the scope of bail conditions, the apex court asserted that the conditions of bail must be relevant to ensuring a free and fair trial. (HT PHOTO)

india news

Updated on Jan 08, 2025 04:00 AM IST

ByUtkarsh Anand

Failure to appear in court an independent offence, SC rules

The court said non-appearance itself constitutes an offence, irrespective of whether the proclamation is later nullified or the accused is finally acquitted.

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Updated on Jan 04, 2025 08:12 AM IST

ByUtkarsh Anand

Absconding accused entitled to default bail, says HC

The court was hearing a reference arising out of a petition filed by Sunil Vitthal Wagh, an accused the murder of a former municipal councillor

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Updated on Dec 27, 2024 06:40 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Morning briefing: How 3 new laws reimagine crime; and more

A shortlist of the biggest headlines, recommended stories, and a special collection of news items you should check out.

The government has announced that while the British colonial rulers implemented these laws with an intent to inflict punishment on Indian subjects, the new laws aim to render justice to citizens by overhauling the punishment and procedures applicable for the investigation and prosecution of crimes.. (Arvind Yadav/HT Photo)

india news

Published on Jul 01, 2024 09:23 AM IST

ByHT News Desk

Gurugram cops gear up, undergo training to implement three new laws from July 1

“The BNS 2023 consists of 358 sections, a reduction from IPC’s 511 sections, but with enhanced penalties and provisions,” police commissioner Arora

Gurugram, India-May 26, 2024: Haryana Police and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) stand guard outside a sealed 'strong room' where electronic voting machines (EVM) are kept following Lok Sabha election of Haryana state at Government Girl College in sector-14, in Gurugram, India, on Sunday, 26 May 2024. (Photo by Parveen Kumar/Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Jun 23, 2024 06:52 AM IST

ByLeena Dhankhar

Put on hold three criminal laws, consult stakeholders: Stalin in letter to Shah

MK Stalin has asked Union home minister Amit Shah to consider the views of all states and other key stakeholders and withhold the enactments already notified.

Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK leader MK Stalin. (ANI)

india news

Updated on Jun 19, 2024 04:02 AM IST

ByDivya Chandrababu

Chandigarh admn imposes Section 144 near HCS exam centres

An order, imposing Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, was issued by Chandigarh district magistrate Vinay Pratap Singh on Friday

All Photostat machine shops within 200 metres around the examination centres and coaching centres in their vicinity will remain closed on Sunday till the examination is over, as per the Chandigarh district magistrate’s order. (HT Photo)

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Updated on Mar 02, 2024 09:46 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

By Dec 2024, Chandigarh will be ready to implement new criminal laws: Amit Shah

Amit Shah said that by December next year, the UTs of our nation will have all the necessary infrastructure, software, trained human resources, and completely computerised courts to readily implement the new laws,” said Shah who was in Chandigarh to inaugurate projects worth ₹368

From left: UT administrator Banwarilal Purohit, Union home minister Amit Shah and mayor Anup Gupta at Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology, Sector 26, on Friday. (Ravi Kumar/HT)

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Updated on Dec 23, 2023 09:18 AM IST

ByMandeep Kaur Narula, Chandigarh

New code will entrench prejudices in the police

The proposed penal code entrenches the status quo of colonial and casteist policing

Everyday policing in India is primarily driven by petty offences. (PTI)

opinion

Published on Nov 24, 2023 08:00 AM IST

ByNikita Sonavane, Sagar Soni

MHA to now review other pre-Independence acts

The acts being reviewed include the Passport Act, 1920; the Registration of Foreigners Act, 1939; the Foreigners Act, 1946 and others.

A timeline for amending these acts has not been decided but officials said such reviews are part of a continuous process (AP)

india news

Updated on Oct 26, 2023 04:58 AM IST

ByNeeraj Chauhan, New Delhi

Over three bills: Opposition MPs set to give dissent notes on report

Opposition leaders oppose haste in adopting report, suggest more time for review.

Two prominent Opposition members -- former Union minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram and Trinamool Congress’s Rajya Sabha floor leader Derek O’Brien -- have written to Lal, opposing any haste in adopting the report (AP)

india news

Updated on Oct 26, 2023 04:59 AM IST

BySaubhadra Chatterji, New Delhi

Chandigarh: Ahead of festive season, 123 snatchers on police radar

Chandigarh Police turn to CrPC provisions to initiate preventive action against snatchers who tend to target shoppers in crowded markets during festive season

Chandigarh Police have initiated prevention action against a total of 123 snatchers, 72 of them repeat offenders — those booked for the same offence more than two times. (HT)

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Updated on Sep 29, 2023 08:24 AM IST

ByNikhil Sharma, Chandigarh

Section 144 imposed in Karnataka ahead of bandh over Cauvery row

Bengaluru police have imposed Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure ahead of a bandh called by pro-Kannada groups protesting over the Cauvery water issue. The prohibitory orders will be enforced for 24 hours, starting midnight on Thursday. Police have also deployed 80,000 personnel across Karnataka to ensure security and have warned of strict action against anyone disrupting law and order during the bandh. The deputy chief minister and BJP have pledged their support for the bandh, while the film industry has also lent its support. The CWMA is scheduled to meet on Friday to assess the water situation.

A view of closed shops in the KR Market amid the 'Bengaluru bandh' called by the Kannada activists and farmers over the release of Cauvery River water to Tamil Nadu, in Bengaluru on Tuesday. (ANI)

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Updated on Sep 29, 2023 07:46 AM IST

ByArun Dev, Bengaluru

Oppn MPs seek views of jurists, experts on bills to replace criminal laws

Congress and Trinamool Congress are expected to propose the names of a number of jurists and experts who should be called to depose before for the panel.

Opposition members of Parliament demand views of more expert on bills to replace criminal code, IPC, evidence act. (HT Archive)

india news

Updated on Sep 13, 2023 12:07 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

To fight mob lynching, police reforms a must

Inclusion of this offence in the three proposed codes is welcome. But the police and some states flouting top court norms have to clean up their act

The states, so far, have been miserly in allocating funds to the police(HT Photo)

opinion

Published on Aug 22, 2023 10:33 PM IST

ByYashovardhan Azad

Legal code overhaul needs more debate

The government's new bills to replace colonial-era legislation in India have raised concerns about language and content, highlighting the need for more debate

A major potential improvement in the new bills is adding community service as a possible punishment for petty offences. (Getty Images)

opinion

Published on Aug 19, 2023 10:22 PM IST

ByMark Tully

New draft codes need wider consultations

The new bills give the impression that instead of genuine reform, it was an exercise of leaving one’s stamp just for the sake of doing so

Changes to police custody (PC) are retrogressive(HT Archive)

opinion

Published on Aug 16, 2023 10:11 PM IST

ByAbhishek Singhvi

‘Judges be vigilant’: Kapil Sibal sounds alarm on bills to replace criminal laws

Former law minister Kapil Sibal has called on the government to withdraw three bills that aim to replace colonial-era IPC, CrPC and Indian Evidence Act.

india news

Published on Aug 13, 2023 06:33 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

ED can interrogate me in prison, Balaji tells SC

Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji on Tuesday that nothing prevented the ED from interrogating him in the hospital during his 15-day remand beginning June 14 while he was hospitalised for bypass surgery

V Senthil Balaji told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that nothing prevented the ED from interrogating him in the hospital during his 15-day remand beginning June 14 while he was hospitalised for bypass surgery. (PTI)

india news

Updated on Aug 02, 2023 12:37 AM IST

ByAbraham Thomas

Nuh: Death toll touches 5 in communal violence aftermath; over 50 injured

Five people have been killed and over 50 injured in communal violence in Haryana's Nuh. A mob attacked a religious procession, setting cars on fire.

There was heavy police deployment in the area. (HT Photo)

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Updated on Aug 01, 2023 10:40 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Punjab CM Mann writes to Shah for President nod to sacrilege Bills

Punjab CM Mann in a fresh letter to Shah on May 24 said, “Now we have received response from your ministry that the punishment proposed in the amendments appears to be excessive. In this context, I would like to bring to your kind notice that Guru Granth Sahib is considered living guru by Sikhs and is accorded respect accordingly,”.

As the Centre termed Punjab’s amendments to the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to give life imprisonment to sacrilege accused as “harsher punishment”, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann has again written to Union home minister Amit Shah for getting the President’s assent on the two Bills that have been pending since 2018. (PTI File Photo)

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Updated on May 27, 2023 11:40 PM IST

ByRavinder Vasudeva, Chandigarh

Manipur’s Churachandpur remains tense; night curfew imposed in Churachandpur

Shutdown of mobile internet services and Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, imposed since Friday, continued to be in place.

The authorities imposed night curfew in New Lamka, headquarters of Churachandpur, from 5pm to 5am on Saturday until further orders. (Facebook)

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Updated on Apr 30, 2023 10:27 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Wife of slain IAS officer moves SC against ex-MP Anand Mohan’s release

Anand Mohan walked out of prison on April 24 after the Bihar government introduced a minor tweak in the Bihar Prison Manual on April 10 that exempted life convicts involved in murder of a public servant to be eligible for release under the state’s premature release policy after serving a sentence of 14 years.

Uma Krishnaiah, wife of the slain Gopalganj District Magistrate G Krishnaiah. (ANI)

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Updated on Apr 29, 2023 10:50 PM IST

ByAbraham Thomas

25 years after fire, trial court in Delhi to decide on Uphaar de-sealing

A three-judge bench noted that the trial in the main Uphaar case was over and that the Ansal brothers had deposited fines of ₹30 crore each

Interiors of Uphaar Cinema at Green Park in New Delhi. (HT Archive)

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Updated on Apr 27, 2023 11:50 PM IST

ByAbraham Thomas, New Delhi

Proclamation notice issued against Arsh Dalla, Hardeep Nijjar

The court of special CBI-cum-NIA judge Rakesh Kumar Gupta issued the proclamation notice under Section 82 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), asking for the appearance of the accused by May 18

Terrorists Arshdeep Singh, alias Arsh Dalla, and Hardeep Singh Nijjar (in picture), are believed to be operating from Canada. (HT)

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Updated on Apr 28, 2023 12:45 AM IST

ByMohit Khanna, Mohali

Pimpri-Chinchwad police to seize property of 57 absconding criminals

According to the police, the criminals were identified under a special drive and judicial assistance has been sought to seize their properties

Citizens have been urged to come forward and assist the police in identifying absconding criminals. (REPRESENTATIVE PIC)

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Updated on Apr 24, 2023 11:15 PM IST

ByShrinivas Deshpande

SC pulls up IO for closure report during pendency of appeal against its quashing

A bench of justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar said when criminal proceedings are quashed, there cannot be any closure report

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Updated on Apr 20, 2023 09:13 AM IST

ByAbraham Thomas

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Latest from code of criminal procedure

Consistency, finality of judicial decisions hallmarks of sound justice delivery system: SC

Bashir was involved in FIR No. 70/2000 registered at Police Station Poonch under Sections 2/3 of the Egress and Internal Movement (Control) Ordinance (E&IMCO); accused absconded to Pakistan/PoJK and was subsequently declared a proclaimed offender by the court, say police

The Bombay High Court will decide if arrest grounds must be in writing and if prior notice is needed, addressing procedural ambiguities affecting serious crime bail.

Emphasising that such a stipulation lies outside the scope of bail conditions, SC asserted that the conditions of bail must be relevant.

The court said non-appearance itself constitutes an offence, irrespective of whether the proclamation is later nullified or the accused is finally acquitted.

The court was hearing a reference arising out of a petition filed by Sunil Vitthal Wagh, an accused the murder of a former municipal councillor

A shortlist of the biggest headlines, recommended stories, and a special collection of news items you should check out.

“The BNS 2023 consists of 358 sections, a reduction from IPC’s 511 sections, but with enhanced penalties and provisions,” police commissioner Arora

MK Stalin has asked Union home minister Amit Shah to consider the views of all states and other key stakeholders and withhold the enactments already notified.

An order, imposing Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, was issued by Chandigarh district magistrate Vinay Pratap Singh on Friday

Amit Shah said that by December next year, the UTs of our nation will have all the necessary infrastructure, software, trained human resources, and completely computerised courts to readily implement the new laws,” said Shah who was in Chandigarh to inaugurate projects worth ₹368

The proposed penal code entrenches the status quo of colonial and casteist policing

The acts being reviewed include the Passport Act, 1920; the Registration of Foreigners Act, 1939; the Foreigners Act, 1946 and others.

Opposition leaders oppose haste in adopting report, suggest more time for review.

Chandigarh Police turn to CrPC provisions to initiate preventive action against snatchers who tend to target shoppers in crowded markets during festive season

Congress and Trinamool Congress are expected to propose the names of a number of jurists and experts who should be called to depose before for the panel.

Inclusion of this offence in the three proposed codes is welcome. But the police and some states flouting top court norms have to clean up their act

The government's new bills to replace colonial-era legislation in India have raised concerns about language and content, highlighting the need for more debate

The new bills give the impression that instead of genuine reform, it was an exercise of leaving one’s stamp just for the sake of doing so

Former law minister Kapil Sibal has called on the government to withdraw three bills that aim to replace colonial-era IPC, CrPC and Indian Evidence Act.

Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji on Tuesday that nothing prevented the ED from interrogating him in the hospital during his 15-day remand beginning June 14 while he was hospitalised for bypass surgery

Five people have been killed and over 50 injured in communal violence in Haryana's Nuh. A mob attacked a religious procession, setting cars on fire.

Shutdown of mobile internet services and Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, imposed since Friday, continued to be in place.

A three-judge bench noted that the trial in the main Uphaar case was over and that the Ansal brothers had deposited fines of ₹30 crore each

The court of special CBI-cum-NIA judge Rakesh Kumar Gupta issued the proclamation notice under Section 82 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), asking for the appearance of the accused by May 18

According to the police, the criminals were identified under a special drive and judicial assistance has been sought to seize their properties

A bench of justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar said when criminal proceedings are quashed, there cannot be any closure report

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